Thursday, September 30, 1999
The Univer sity Daily K ansan
Section A · Page 5
Student sees ups and downs in RV
Continued from page 1A
slept in tents when he was younger.
But now his long-term residence offers more than a nylon roof and a zip-up door.
"It's basically like a regular apartment," McSweeney said.
In some ways, anyway.
McSweeney said he preferred the scholarship hall environment and the company of his classmates to the quiet of his RV.
"It's nice sometimes, but I'm always in town begging people to do things with me because I don't like being alone," he said.
His neighborhood changes weekly as other RV-dwellers come and go.
"I really got to know my neighbors," he said. "I introduced myself, got to know them a bit, and then they said 'We're leaving in two days.' Another lady said she didn't come talk to me because she knew she was leaving in three days."
RV amenities
McSweeney has the usual utilities that come with a house or apartment, including a stove, an oven, a microwave and a club
along one wall in the kitchen area.
Aeros the narrow aisle is a small booth with two bench seats and a table that converts into a bed.
There is also a living room with a couch, a small armchair and a corner entertainment center just large enough for a 13-inch television and two small speakers.
McSweenley can detach the cushions and open a compartment underneath the kitchen benches to access extra storage space, as he can with a compartment under his bed hidden by a hinged door.
But even with these areas and several closets throughout the RV, it doesn't offer much room for the many items college students tend to accumulate.
"This type of arrangement makes you become a minimalist when it comes to personal belongings," McSweeney said.
He has a couple of personal items displayed on a shelf above one of three living-room windows, including a small wooden clock and a framed painting of an elderly man praying over a loaf of bread.
"It's really comforting," he said of the painting. "My mom had it ever since I was a kid."
His guitar, tucked away in its
"This type of arrangement makes you become a minimalist when it comes to personal belongings."
Darren McSweeney
Wichita sophomore
case, sits against the wall in the living room. There is also a copy of a biblical verse posted on the bathroom mirror.
Although these few items offer McSweeney a taste of home, the RV's wooden cabinets and rust, brown and off-white floral upholstery provide a muted decor that clashes with his visions of psychic delicaters and a mirrored disco ball.
"There's not much wall space, but it's just a little too homey for me," he said.
After everything has been packed and put away, McSweeney's home is still a large, aluminum box.
Braving the weather
"It's impossible to sleep when it'
raining because of all the noise," he said.
The RV gets drafty in the fall and winter — a problem that he has attempted to solve in the past by taping foam over the windows.
"I'll just chain myself to a tree," he said, laughing.
There also is the potential threat of tornadoes, which he said did not worry him.
But McSweeney said if a tornado ever did come close, he probably would seek shelter at the campground owner's home, which is located on the property.
Finding a new home
McSweeney said that he liked the privacy and relaxing atmosphere he finds in his RV but that he planned to live in an apartment or house with a high school friend next semester.
He said he would put his RV on the market between semesters or park it in his mom's yard in Wichita if it didn't sell right away.
"There's always the possibility of a spring break road trip to Vegas," he said. "This place was much more fun to travel in than just to live in."
- Edited by Chris Hutchison
mart cards not bright enough to locate owners
By Jim O'Malley
Special to the Kansan
The cards may be smart, but their owners are sometimes forgetful.
Every day, the KU Card Center on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union receives anywhere from five to 20 KUIDs, said Ben Goodell, a Lawrence freshman who works at the center.
Although center employees look up the owners in the directory and call them daily, Goodell said the cards accumulated.
"Right now we have about 70," he said as he held up a four-inch-tall stack of cards held together with a rubber band.
Goodell said the most common places where students lose cards were the copy machines in the libraries, the check-in desk at Robinson Center, residence hall cafeterias and vending machines.
But he said lost cards were found all across Lawrence and turned in to the center.
"Also sometimes people get them jammed up in the machines," Goodell said. "Service people and the people who load up the machines find them and turn them in here."
Some cards are lost for good, though, and replacing a card costs $15. Goodell said students who replaced cards could choose to get their old KUID photos, which are stored on computer, or they could have their photographs taken again at no extra charge.
"Some people will pay the $15 just to get a new photo," he said.
If students choose to get their old photos on the new KUID, the proc
"I think it got mixed up in a bunch of papers, and I threw it away," she said.
ess takes about 90 seconds.
Sarah McClymont,
North Platte,
Neb., freshman,
was in the center Tuesday
after noon
replacing a lost
McClymont said she was satisfied with her old photo.
Goodell said that lost cards often were turned in after students already had paid for replacements.
"People don't want to wait because they've got things to do and books to check out," he said. "Some guy came back five minutes after he got his second ID saying he lost it, and it was turned in a few
days later."
Jeanie Schaller, Manhattan freshman, works in the copy center on the second floor of Watson Library. She said four or five cards were turned in there a day.
"The most common thing is leaving them in the copying machines," she said.
She said many people realized they had left their cards in the copy machines, came right back and found their cards still at the copy center.
"Cards are sent here first." Schaller said. "If they aren't picked up after two or three days, they're sent over to the card center."
Schaller said she was impressed by the honesty of the people who found lost cards because some of the KUIDs double as bank cards.
"There's money on the cards, and they turn them in," she said.
Edited by Kelly Clasen
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